Difficulty Quotes

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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose… — Samuel Johnson
It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement… — Richard Cobden
A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given… — Gregory Bateson
There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward. — William Carey
Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had… — Helen Barrett Montgomery
However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human… — Eric Hoffer
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back. — Epictetus
Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil). — Saint Augustine
There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not… — Plato
Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. — Edward Somers
Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have… — Aristotle
Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier,… — Epictetus
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. — Aeschylus
Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or… — Aristotle
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. — Sophocles
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free. — Sophocles
Nothing great comes into being all at once. — Epictetus

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